67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 23990)
Perihelion distance : 1.21 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 6.43 years
Eccentricity : 0.65
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2021 Sep 17 02h16 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 11.4 Aperture radius for m1 1.5 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.1 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 2.5 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 Tail length 0.15 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 260 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.339 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.581 AU Right ascension 60.16479 ° Declination +17.69389 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Camera SONY alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 12 °C Binning 2x2 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 152.2 s Picture exposure details 21*3.2s+34*2.5s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 3 Moon phase 49 ° Moon elongation 116 ° Air mass 1.29 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, flat, alignement stellaire, alignement comète, somme, retrait gradient Remarks or comments images RAW
couche verte: m1=11.2, Dia.=3' Observation submission date 2021 Sep 21 22h51m57s